The road back does not always lead to the original location. Sometimes it leads to a new place-often a better one. On occasion, finding the way back is unsuccessful, and the trip ends badly. But new purpose is often the outcome of a difficult journey. The stories in this volume explore life's passages: smooth and rocky, exiting and funny, poignant and sad. The characters wrestle with scars from the battlefield in Afghanistan, the suicide of a child, the rape of a sister, the kidnapping of a little girl. Comedy is the theme of several selections. Love, grief, anger and humor live in the...